Night Nurse (1931)
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Features
• Black & White
• NTSC
In Theaters : 08 August, 1931
Video Release : 01 September, 1998 |
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Night Nurse (1931) Customer Reviews
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it's enough to make her want to burn the place down
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Night Nurse is a gripping, taut drama starring the great Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell and a rather young Clark Gable. The convincing acting always held my attention and the plot moves along at a good pace.
The action begins when Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) gets a job as a nurse trainee at a hospital--after she shows a little bit of her leg to Dr. Arthur Bell (Charles Winninger), that is. Lora soon meets and befriends another nurse trainee named B. Maloney (Joan Blondell).
One night during Lora's internship she treats a bootlegger for a bullet wound and out of kindness she lets him go without filing a police report. He's mighty grateful to her and promises they'll be "pals" from there on in.
After Lora and Maloney graduate nursing school they get jobs being private nurses for two very sick little girls in a rather wealthy household. Lora, the night nurse, soon suspects that the girls are being malnourished so that they will literally die of starvation. Things heat up further when she meets Nick, the chauffeur (Clark Gable), and the doctor assigned to the case, Dr. Ranger (Ralf Harolde).
Yes, Lora suspects that the children are being slowly but surely murdered--but is she correct? Why would anyone want these two adorable little girls to be murdered? What could happen to Lora is she speaks out about the problem? How will the bottlegger figure into the action? No spoilers here, folks, you'll just have to watch the movie to find out!
The choreography works well in the hospital scenes; and I liked the cinematography as well.
Overall, Night Nurse is an excellent pre-Code film that deals with the darker side of the human experience. Fans of Barbara Stanwyck will be delighted to see her act so well in one of her earliest films; and Joan Blondell fans will like this one, too. Look also for a fine performance from the great Clark Gable.
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